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...would take him to Emory. There were triumphs--and put-downs. One year Marshall's middle-school Quiz Bowl team won a contest focusing on drugs and alcohol. Says he: "After we won--and believe me, it was sort of amazing we won--some city-council member made a snide remark that we should have won because we knew more about drugs than anyone. It was an attempt to belittle our accomplishment just because we were black...
...They will all be here every Friday," said head teaching fellow Benjamin Berger. "The other two will be sitting to the side making snide comments...
Although your reporting is usually balanced, your article "Soap Operas: the Old and the Desperate" [TELEVISION, May 29] was pretentious and snide. The mainstream press never takes soaps seriously. Yes, they have their share of feeble story lines and poor acting, and they suffer from a decline in ratings. If you measure the best of prime-time television and movies against the best of daytime soap operas, however, soaps win by a landslide. JOHN L. JONES New York City...
Comparing homosexuality to selling one's soul to the devil? Is this what Peninsula means by "affirming the dignity of the homosexual"? The highminded, bombastic rhetoric found in Landry's piece seems a little undermined by snide wisecracks such as this. With such nastiness masquerading as a service to benighted Harvard liberals, no wonder Peninsula is so defensive about its intellectual legitimacy...
...contact is with students whose ability to work and learn at Harvard is impaired by the inappropriate and harmful actions of those who occupy positions of trust. I imagine they and their peers can "trust their instincts" in deciding how to take Lat's snide and shallow column. Virginia Mackay-Smith Assistant Dean for Coeducation